Esther 9:14 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁴ So the king commanded this to be done; a decree was issued in Susa, and the ten sons of Haman were hung.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁴ And the king commanded it so to be done: and the decree was given at Shushan; and they hanged Haman's ten sons.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁴ And the king commanded it to be done; the decree was given in Shushan, and they hanged [the bodies of] Haman's ten sons.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁴ And the king commanded it so to be done: and a decree was given out in Shushan; and they hanged Haman’s ten sons.

Common English Bible

¹⁴ The king ordered that this be done, and the law became public in Susa. They impaled the ten sons of Haman just as she said.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁴ For you, my lord, are great and wonderful, and your face is full of grace."

English Standard Version 2016

¹⁴ So the king commanded this to be done. A decree was issued in Susa, and the ten sons of Haman were hanged.

Esther 9:14 Cross References

Ezra 7:13

I decree that any of the people of Israel or their priests or Levites in my kingdom who freely offers to go to Jerusalem may go with you.

Esther 7:10

So they hung Haman on the pole that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the anger of the king abated.

Esther 7:9

Then Harbona, one of the eunuchs in attendance on the king, said, “Look, the very pole that Haman has prepared for Mordecai, whose word saved the king, stands at Haman’s house, fifty cubits high.” And the king said, “Hang him on that.”

Esther 9:13

Esther said, “If it pleases the king, let the Jews who are in Susa be allowed tomorrow also to do according to this day’s edict, and let the ten sons of Haman be hung on the pole.”

Esther 9:15

The Jews who were in Susa gathered also on the fourteenth day of the month of Adar, and they killed three hundred persons in Susa, but they did not touch the plunder.

Proverbs 12:7

The wicked are overthrown and are no more, but the house of the righteous will stand.

Ecclesiastes 6:3

A man may father a hundred children and live many years, but however many are the days of his years, if he does not enjoy life’s good things or has no burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he.

Numbers 24:20

Then he looked on Amalek and uttered his oracle, saying, “First among the nations was Amalek, but its end is to perish forever.”

Galatians 3:13

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us—for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree”—